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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.
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A man who has lived and loved falls down dead and the worms eat him. That is Materialism if you like. That is Atheism if you like.
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After the first silence the small man said to the other: 'Where does a wise man hide a pebble?'
And the tall man answered in a low voice: 'On the beach.'
The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: 'Where does a wise man hide a leaf?'
And the other answered: 'In the forest.'
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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
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And goodness only knowses
The Noselessness of Man.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.
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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Born:
May 29, 1874
Died:
June 14, 1936
(aged 62)
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